Messages - nitrofurano

anyway, i think i found a bug/misfeature: i'm struggling to change some colours, like text shadows, gradients and colour backgrounds - for me is far more comfortable having a darker text over brighter background than brighter text over darker background

i had no problems on the OSX version of MilkyTracker, but on the Linux version ( Mint-Debian, testing the version 0.90.80 from Debian repository ), sometimes the PlaySng button doesn't work - i don't know what is causing this

the pattern background colour seems to be uneditable - i only can change the 'pattern: 1st row bg', and nothing changes from 'pattern: 2st row bg'

the fact is, in my oppinion, is much more comfortable to read black text on white background - and when we replace the foreground texts with black, their shadow (which could be switchable, as the gradients on the backgrounds and buttons) messes with it

i think it's not very usual having scripting (like from python or lua) available on a tracker, but since so many software-libre editors supports it (like gimp, inkscape, scribus, grafx2, etc.), would be great if this feature could be added as well, and making people help the MilkyTracker project with very interesting plugins

from a long time i use a tracker named VortexTracker - it's very limited, but it has an unique feature: can load and save tunes in text format, which means you can edit them both on a tracker as well on a simple text editor

in my oppinion, all binary tune formats, like .mod, .xm, .it, .s3m, etc.., can have their txt-based version, simply having the bytecode info describedn into text lines, the tunes as we edit them as well (take a look from the modplugtracker clipboard when pasting them on a text editor), and the samples stored in an encoding like hexdump (takes a large space, but they are easy to edit, and simple to use/create), or base64, or compressed-base64 (like base64-bzip, base64-gzip, etc.. - can take a smaller space, but harder to edit)

would be great if MilkyTracker could be innovative when supporting txt-based formats, when other trackers are sadly missing it